are you using a /boot partition?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Streit" <jimstreit at northlans.com>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 1:49 PM
Subject: [TCLUG] Dual Boot


> I'm tring to dual boot a box with Windows 2000 and Redhat 7.3.
> Heres what I've tried so far.
>
> Installed Win 2000 on the first 7.5 gb of drive, leaving a little
> bit of space before the 1024 cylinder boot limit.
> Installed RedHat 7.3
>
> The first time I installed RH I placed GRUB in the MBR.  I could
> boot RH fine, but I couldn't boot to Windows.
>
> Reinstalled win 2000
> Reinstalled RH 7.3
>
> The second time I installed RH I placed GRUB in the /boot partition.
>
> Now I can boot to windows fine, but I can't boot to RH.  When I boot
> on the Linux boot disk that is created during RH install, the floppy
> starts to boot but part way through I get an error.
>
> I've read a bunch of stuff about copy files from one partition to
> another and modifiying each other OS boot loader, but the main
> problem for me is that I can only get to one or the other depending
> on the install.  I'm never able to "reboot" and select an OS at
> startup.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction, or to instructions that
> would help me.
>
> Thanks
> Jim Streit
>
>
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